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The 3D model of Barna: every building standing up, with the shops and services pinned

Barna, street by street

A Gaeltacht village seven kilometres west of the city on the coast road, with a Georgian house of 1778, a quay by Alexander Nimmo and a population that has grown into Galway's suburb.

Barna is a town of 2,336 people, 7 km west of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 1,469 buildings stands on the map above, and 205 shops, cafés, schools, churches and services have a page each, with the street, the hours where recorded, the nearest bus stop and car park, and a plan of the streets around it. Everything comes from open map data and says so.

Today
Weather in Barna

Live forecast for the centre, hour by hour and the week ahead.

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Barna

7 km from Galway, 21 km from Aerphort Chonamara, 3 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The quay, Barna House, St Enda's well, the woods, the strand, the reserve.

Since early times
The history of Barna

Middens and forts, the house of 1778, Nimmo's quay, the co-operative, the Olympic rower, the growth.

Facts
About the town

Population 2,336 at the 2022 census, where it is, what is here.

What is in Barna

9 restaurants, 1 pubs, 4 shops, 2 hairdressers and beauty and 2 supermarkets and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the village first.

Food and drink
Shops
Health
Services
Motoring
Community
Sport and leisure
Places to stay
Things to see
Other

All 45 kinds of place

Guides to Barna

All 2 guides
Barna Woods At the end of the woodland path you enter playing fields.
Park
Barna Woods

Barna Woods, Coill Bhearna, is a mixed broadleaf wood about 3 miles from Galway city centre, owned by Galway City Council and part of…

Village
Barna

Bearna, Barna, is the coastal Gaeltacht village on the R336 about 7 km west of Galway city that has become a satellite of the city:…

Food and drink

Where to eat in Barna

10 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 7 of them within 300 m of the village. 0 have hours on record.

  1. Donnelly's of barnaPubs · Barna Road
  2. La Dalce VitaTakeaways · Barna Road
  3. Amber Oriental TakeawayRestaurants · Barna Road
  4. Caffe VeroCafés · Barna Road
  5. Indi Garden TakewayRestaurants · Barna Road
  6. O'Grady's On The PierRestaurants · Pier Road Barna
  7. HookedRestaurants
  8. SpicedRestaurants

Restaurants · Cafés · Takeaways · Pubs

Plan of Barna with every place to eat marked

Every place to eat and drink as a pin; tap one for its page and directions.

Street by street

All 12 streets
  1. Barna Road
    regional road R336 · 2.0 km
    25 places
  2. Silver Strand
    minor road L5148 · 685 m
    2 places
  3. Pier Road Barna
    service road L13216 · 387 m
    1 place
  4. Scath na Mara
    residential street · 386 m
    1 place

Things to see around Barna

Rusheen Bay
Rusheen Bay
Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Barna Harbour
Barna Harbour
Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Beach at Barna
Beach at Barna
Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 5 ringforts and ancient sites and 1 holy well on their own pages.

  1. Hen Harrier ReserveNature reserves · 802 m
  2. Tobar ÉannaMonuments · 1.4 km
  3. The South WoodWoods · 1.5 km
  4. The North WoodWoods · 1.5 km
  5. Hunters ParkParks · 1.6 km
  6. The Wet WoodWoods · 1.7 km
  7. Cappagh PlaygroundPlaygrounds · 1.9 km
  8. Coillte Loch RoisínWoods · 1.9 km
  9. Bird SanctuaryViewpoints · 2.0 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells · Beaches · Hotels

Barna in pictures

Photographs of the place and the country around it, each from an open archive and credited to the person who took it.

Rusheen Bay
Rusheen Bay
Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Barna Harbour
Barna Harbour
Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Beach at Barna
Beach at Barna
Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Road to Silverstrand beach
Road to Silverstrand beach
Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rusheen Bay
Rusheen Bay
Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Silverstrand beach
Silverstrand beach
Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rasheen Bay
Rasheen Bay
N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Silver Strand Beach near Galway City
Silver Strand Beach near Galway City
DeeEmm, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Questions people ask

Where is Barna?
Barna is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 7 km west of Galway city and 192 km west of Dublin.
What is the population of Barna?
2,336 people at the 2022 census.
How far is Barna from Galway?
7 km in a straight line from the village to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
What is Barna known for?
Its quay by Nimmo, the woods and Silverstrand, its Irish, and being the coastal village that has become a suburb of Galway.
What is the weather like in Barna today?
The weather page shows the live forecast for the centre, hour by hour for the next day and day by day for the week.

How the model is built

The buildings are OpenStreetMap footprints, read on 2026-09-18, stood up to the height the map records or a plain two storeys where it records none. Streets, water and the base map come from the same project through OpenFreeMap. Places are the named shops, services and public buildings on the map; each has its own page.

A building takes the colour of the kind of place inside it: restaurants in red, pharmacies in green, schools in yellow. Nothing is invented to fill a gap: a missing fact is shown as missing, with a link to add it to the map. More about the model.